Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Summary: Requires: 8013789: Compiler bridges, 8015402: metafactory
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp, bharadwaj

Summary: Some of qsort implementation on Linux x86 compares element to itself, which is  mistakenly treated as duplicate pointer
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: JVM_SetProtectionDomain has been deprecated since 1.5 and is being removed
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Changed initial size to Chunk::tiny_size (216 bytes)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dcubed, dholmes, rdurbin

Summary: Dl_info struct should only be used if dladdr() has returned non-zero (no errors) and always check the dladdr() return value; Dl_info.dli_sname and Dl_info.dli_saddr fields should only be used if non-NULL; update/improve runtime/6888954/vmerrors.sh test
Reviewed-by: dsamersoff, zgu, hseigel, coleenp

8016074: NMT: assertion failed: assert(thread->thread_state() == from) failed: coming from wrong thread state
Summary: Uses os::NakedYield() on Solaris instead of os::yield_all()
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, hseigel

Summary: Remove -Xaprof and Klass::_alloc_count & ArrayKlass::_alloc_size.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: Return the appropriate JNI error message (instead of the generic one) when the JVM is already started
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel
Contributed-by: sylvestre@debian.org

8017571: JSR292: JVM crashing on assert "cast to instanceKlass" while producing MethodHandle for array methods with MethodHandle.findVirtual
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8015391: NPG: With -XX:+UseCompressedKlassPointers OOME due to exhausted metadata space could occur when metaspace is almost empty
Summary: Allocate medium chunks for class metaspace when class loader has lots of classes
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

8014972: Crash with specific values for -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=500K -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=500k
Summary: Introduce a minimum code cache size that guarantees that the VM can startup.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Undo recent changes (and add more comments) in Ideal_allocation().
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: cast the offending expressions to (void)
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: The auto corrector for mistyped vm options fuzzy-matches existing flags based on string similarity (Dice's coefficient).
Reviewed-by: kvn, dsamersoff, hseigel, johnc

Summary: The assert is invalid when a card is being refined by two different threads and its count crosses the hot threshold - the refinement count will be updated once by each thread triggering the assert. Remove the assert and update the count using a bounded expression.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, tamao, brutisso

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, jmasa, ysr
Contributed-by: per.liden@oracle.com

Summary: Set HeapBaseMinAddress as default rather than ergo
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, kvn

Reviewed-by: tbell, darcy

Reviewed-by: stefank, brutisso, mgronlun

Reviewed-by: jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso

Reviewed-by: johnc, tschatzl

Summary: Minimize redundant verifications of Klasses.
Reviewed-by: hseigel, jmasa

Summary: Replace _indy by _jsr292 and also fix VERIFY_OOP macros.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Replaces unused decodeN at MemBarAcquire with its corresponding loadN if loadN is used at more than one place.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: remove unused breakpoint relocation type
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added Atomic::inc(short*) to support this change.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Add code pc location for compiled code
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: doug.simon@oracle.com

Summary: Detect this crash in the signal handler and give a fatal error message instead of making us chase down bugs that don't reproduce
Reviewed-by: kvn, mgerdin, dholmes

Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Summary: Reduce default size of Thread::_metadata_handles from 300 to 30
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Missing linebreak in hotspot log.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, tschatzl
Contributed-by: vladimir.kempik@oracle.com

8001345: VM crashes with assert(n->outcnt() != 0 || C->top() == n || n->is_Proj()) failed: No dead instructions after post-alloc
Summary: Remove unnecessary LoadN / DecodeN nodes at MemBarAcquire nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, dholmes, coleenp, johnc

Summary: Parallelize the scanning of the intern string table by having each GC worker claim a given number of buckets. Changes were also reviewed by Per Liden <per.liden@oracle.com>.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, twisti

Summary: Fixed NMT race condition for realloc, uncommit and release
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ccheung

Summary: modify declaration of 'swap' overloading; dodge optimizer bug in c1_LIR.cpp
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose